Reference

Migration and Urban Development

by Brinley Thomas

This book provides a fascinating insight into the development of the nineteenth century Atlantic economy and the nature of contemporary migration. In particular the author argues that the assumption that the...

Parents and Children in the Inner City

by Harriett Wilson & G.W. Herbert

This book was first published in 1978.

Urban Growth: An Approach

by Brian T. Robson

 Do large cities grow more or less rapidly than small ones? Why should the relationship between city size and population growth vary so much from one period to another? This book studies the process of population...

Managing Change in Libraries and Information Services

by Cathryn Gallacher

In times of rapid change, it is easy for managers to become so absorbed by daily demands and decisions that they lose perspective on the change process as a whole. A practical approach to managing the change...

Evaluation of Library and Information Services

by John Crawford

Provides update to current thinking about, and reasons for, service evaluation of libraries in the UK. Examines quantitative and qualitative methods including questionnaires, focus groups, suggestions boxes...

Legal Information: what it is and where to find it

by Peter Clinch

The guide clearly and concisely shows how to source legal information, and how to deal with legal databases and the need-it-now demands of the marketplace. This second edition has been fully revised and updated,...

Elementary Statistics for Effective Library and Information Service Management

by Leo Egghe & Ronald Rousseau

This title describes how best to use statistical data to produce professional reports on library activities. The authors cover data gathering, sampling, graphical representation of data and summary statistics...

Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance

by Cary D. Wintz & Paul Finkelman

From the music of Louis Armstrong to the portraits by Beauford Delaney, the writings of Langston Hughes to the debut of the musical Show Boat, the Harlem Renaissance is one of the most significant developments...

Political Chronology of Africa

by Europa Publications

Provides an impartial record of the political events that have helped to shape social, cultural, geographical and economic history in the countries of Africa.

Key features include:

* Individual country profiles...

Reader's Guide to Literature in English

by Mark Hawkins-Dady

Reader's Guide Literature in English provides expert guidance to, and critical analysis of, the vast number of books available within the subject of English literature, from Anglo-Saxon times to the current...

Companion Encyclopaedia of Archaeology

by Graeme Barker

This comprehensive, fully illustrated Companion answers the need for an in-depth archaeology reference that provides authoritative coverage of this complex and interdisciplinary field. The work brings together...

The Literary History of England: Vol 3: The Restoration and Eighteenth Century (1660-1789)

by Donald F. Bond & G. Sherburn

The paperback edition, in four volumes, of this standard work will make it readily available to students.

The scope of the work makes it valuable as a work of reference, connecting one period with another and...

Critical Theory and Practice: A Coursebook

by Keith Green & Jill LeBihan

Critical Teory and Practice answers lots of questions, but also stimulates new ones. Its tailor-made combination of survey, reader and workbook is ideal for the beginning - perhaps even bewildered - student...

Encyclopaedia of Contemporary British Culture

by Peter Childs & Michael Storry

Boasting more than 970 alphabetically-arranged entries, the Encyclopedia of Contemporary British Culture surveys British cultural practices and icons in the latter half of the twentieth century. It examines...

W.H. Auden

by Dr John Haffenden & John Haffenden

This set comprises of 40 volumes covering nineteenth and twentieth century European and American authors. These volumes will be available as a complete set, mini boxed sets (by theme) or as individual volumes....

Encyclopaedia of Twentieth-Century African History

by Dickson Eyoh & Paul Tiyambe Zeleza

With nearly two hundred and fifty individually signed entries, the Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century African History explores the ways in which the peoples of Africa and their politics, states, societies, economies,...

International Companion Encyclopedia of Children's Literature

by Peter Hunt

Children's literature continues to be one of the most rapidly expanding and exciting of interdisciplinary academic studies, of interest to anyone concerned with literature, education, internationalism, childhood...

INTL BIBLIOG ECONOM 2002 VOL 51

by Compiled by the British Library of Polit

First published in 1952, the International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (anthropology, economics, political science, and sociology) is well established as a major bibliographic reference for students,...

The President's Speech: The Stories behind the Most Memorable Presidential Addresses

by C. Edwin Vilade

With vivid insight and rousing examples, The President’s Speech takes apart America’s most important presidential addresses, phrase by phrase, and examines the pivotal, often familiar, and always potent...

Plato and the Individual

by David Rankin

This book explores the life-history of the individual within the context of Plato's social thought. The author examines Plato's treatment of the principal crises in an individual life - birth, educational...